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It seems that YouTube, and Google by extension, has decided that rather than let what the people who made the site big in the first place want to watch, they are going to decide for us. Yes indeed, they are going to tell us what is okay to watch, because after all, we aren’t adults who can make up our own fucking minds about things. We are stupid children who have to have this website tell us what is appropriate to watch. They said that to Jordan Peterson today.

Without any warning and without giving a single reason, they decided to suspend his YouTube account. When he tried to go to his GMail account to ask what was going on, that was suspended too. Upon seeing this, he appealed the suspension. It was denied. No reason given for that, either. Peterson did get all of his accounts back. How? Because he is a popular person. After he put the heat on YouTube with social media posts and writing articles, they reinstated him. Had they not, this post would be another Bad PR post, because they would have started a garbage fire. But Peterson was popular. And the new bad day is just starting.

See, YouTube has released a new press release saying what they are going to do with YouTube channels that make controversial content in the future. It will be done to videos that haven’t violated YouTube’s policies in any way. That’s right, someone in a position of power is going to basically let us know that the thing we wanted to watch is bad. Why? Because YouTube said so! They will immediately be unable to monetize their videos. They will never be in anyone’s Recommended videos section. They will also have features like comments, likes, and suggested videos removed. It is being called the “Limited State.” What’s more, all of this is going to happen without a SINGLE person being involved. An AI program will do this for YouTube. In essence, YouTube has told a computer what is appropriate for people, and now that computer is going to go out there and do everything they can to purge this content without openly deleting it.

YouTube has also said that this is just the beginning. More and more types of videos are going to be added to their self-proclaimed blacklist in the months ahead. They’ve promised that.

I remember the good old days of YouTube. When it was the wild west. Sure, you had to slog through a massive ocean of “YouTube stank,” as Jello Apocalypse put it, but you could find whatever you wanted to watch. It was a golden age where people were able to make a stable living, peddling their views to the marketplace of ideas. Don’t like that person’s views? Well, you can bet that there is someone who is preaching to your choir that you can go see. Or you can start your own channel to preach about how My Little Pony now caters to the alt-right. No joke, there was an article where SJWs say that. It’s amazing. Whatever your point of view, it was open to make money off of and be in that marketplace for all to see.

But those days are gone. Now we live in the days where the Wall Street Journal could run a hit-piece a PewDiePie and how a racist video has ads from Coca-Cola and some fashion brand all within two refreshes, which I contend is bullshit. If it did happen, then that is the biggest jackpot of all time. Especially since YouTube is very good about targeting ads to your demographic. A museum in my state is in most of my ads that I see, unless it’s gamer content I watch. YouTube knows what’s-what. And since advertisers are the biggest pussies in the world and are afraid that someone may see a video saying that Islam is bullshit with an ad from their company, now YouTube has decided to basically castrate their own service. Why? Because if someone’s offended, that makes them look bad!

No, YouTube, this makes you look bad. You’ve basically decided to be the teacher who punishes the entire goddamn class for the actions of one dumbfuck kid. That’s the meat and potatoes of this entire thing. And rather than nut up and have a person involved in ANY of this bullshit, you said, “eh, fuck it! Let’s just let some AI do the job! Because that TOTALLY hasn’t backfired on us already.” Anyone remember when YouTube had a bot mass-flagging videos with content ID matches? It was a huge to-do a few years back, when a ton of film critics basically lost all their revenue because of the fact that the YouTube bot saw a clip from a movie in that video. What’s more, just like with Peterson, there was NO communication from YouTube about any of this. I swear, the more I see that company not talk to people who support it, the more I wonder if the inside of that place is like Mundus’ bank in DmC: Devil May Cry (I like that game, so fucking sue me). It wouldn’t shock me.

I just know that this “limited state” bullshit is going to extend to anti-SJW content. I just know it. Because after all, Google has openly supported these kinds of people. So podcasts like The Drunken Peasants? Am I going to have hunt them down to see their stuff? If they are completely unable to monetize any of their stuff at all, or have Super Chats for when they are live, then their income is effectively destroyed. So they’re gone. So many of the YouTubers that I watch and love will be crushed by this, all because YouTube and by extension Google are too pussy to tell the advertisers to nut up and deal with the fact that the video with Roosh V may have their products advertised on it. I’m sure they’ll survive.

This is how YouTube dies. If they go the distance with this, then effectively they will be destroyed. And I guarantee, once the breeze changes, some young thing will come out there to capitalize on it. “Do you wanna watch something other than cat videos? Come to our site!” I am not going to keep watching YouTube if the content I want to see is buried behind their Chinese wall. I’m just not. If YouTube wants to turn into TV, I’ll just go and watch Netflix. Don’t have to wade through as much crap there.

Until next time, a quote,

“Bad decisions made with good intentions are still bad decisions.” – Jim Collins